The Day: Having embarrassed themselves in the eyes of many New Yorkers by deciding to block an honorary degree for the playwright Tony Kushner, trustees of the City University are gathering Monday evening to undo the damage.

Gov. George E. Pataki named Benno C. Schmidt Jr. chairman of the City University of New York yesterday, just four years after a task force that Mr. Schmidt led labeled CUNY ''an institution adrift.'' Mr. Schmidt, a former Yale president and now...

Edison Schools Inc., the nation's largest private operator of public schools, said yesterday that it would abandon plans to build a $125 million national headquarters across Fifth Avenue from Central Park in Harlem, setting back one of the linchpin...

For weeks, I have had the most important report on the most important university in the life and future of New York City. But I did not read it. I just glared at it. The cover put me off, hard -- ''The City University of New York: An Institution...

July 2, 1999, Friday

Rudy Crew, the Chancellor of New York City's public schools, occupies one of the hottest seats there is. Parents, teachers, the Mayor and many others have had criticisms of the schools, and suggestions of all sorts have been offered -- vouchers,...

Having presented a sweeping new blueprint for the future of the City University of New York, Benno C. Schmidt Jr. will now join its board of trustees as vice chairman. The appointment, announced yesterday by Gov. George E. Pataki, will give Mr....

Benno Schmidt's task-force report on the City University of New York documents the failures of an urban education system that badly needs a clearer mission and more coherent management. Often called the gateway to a better life for immigrants and...

When Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani created an advisory task force last year on the City University of New York, some CUNY defenders expected it to be little more than a political hit squad, since some members shared the Mayor's oft-stated view that CUNY...